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Sun Myths and Resurrection Myths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Grace Harriet Macurdy
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There is a type of resurrection myth, originating in Thrace and in North Greece, the connexion of which with the sun and moon worship is at present unduly set aside in favour of the Demeter-Persephone derivation. This type is seen in the stories, so popular in the art and drama of fifth century Athens, of the wife or husband who prevails against death, for a time at least, by recovering the beloved one. The most famous examples form a triad which is frequently mentioned, the tales of Laodamia, Alcestis, and Orpheus.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 37 , November 1917 , pp. 160 - 167
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1917

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1 Gruppe in Roscher, 3, pt. 2, Sp. 1173, calls the slab the oldest example of the use of the Thracian costume for Orpheus, which began, as he thinks, in the second half of the fifth century. He puts the date of the original about the time of the Archidamian war. This change to the Thraeian dress would very well suit the time in which, as Dr. Leaf suggests' in his article on the Rhesus, the interest in Thracian things had been quickened in Athens by the founding of Amphipolis. Kekulé von Stradonitz in Bildwerke im Berliner Museum, V. Jahrhundert, puts the original of the Medea slab ‘in der Epoche des Parthenonfrieses’ and on the following page (172) says that ‘das Orpheusrelief im ersten Vorbild der gleichen Epoche angehört.’

2 Thomson, , J. A. K., , The Greek Tradition, p. 119Google Scholar.

3 Paus. x. 25, 5.

4 Isyllos con Epidaitros, 92 ff.

5 Warr, in C.R. ix. 390–393Google Scholar.

6 Jewett's, Folk-Ballads of Southern Europe, 23 ffGoogle Scholar.

7 Ibid. p. 271 f.

8 Paus. x. 30, 6.

9 Hermesianax ap. Athenaeum, xiii. 597 f.

10 See M., Mayer, ‘Der Protesilaos des Euripides,’ Hermes, xx., 101Google Scholar ff.

11 J.H.S. 1915, p. 1 ff.

12 Dr.Farnell, (Cults, v. 94)Google Scholar appears to follow Rohde.

13 See Servia by the Servians, Chapter xii., Manners and Customs, by S. Troyanovitch, Director of the Ethnological Museum in Belgrade.